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Office of Management Accounting and Analysis

Name and title of unit head: Jane Wiseman, director

Unit’s location: Gilman Building, 4725 30th Ave.

Health Sciences News Briefs

Earl Davie Building

ZymoGenetics, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of protein therapeutics, in September celebrated the naming of its second building in honor of Dr.

New techniques can keep arteries open longer

For years, it seemed like a rite of passage, like a first car or a first grandchild.

While poisonings of young children decline, teen self-inflicted cases increase

A significant number of teenagers continue to be admitted to hospitals for poisoning from inappropriate use of medications, or, for children younger than 12, for the ingestion of non-medications, according to an article bu UW researchers in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Cell signaling pathways: ‘Wnt’ family of genes governs important cell functions from zebrafish to humans

By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations

A visitor to Dr.

Hormone therapy and cancer: Public Health’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture features Noel Weiss speaking on a quarter-century of studies

Questions about cancer have been linked, almost from the beginning, to the use of hormone replacement therapy for women after menopause.

UW researchers examine data on uterine rupture

Women who’ve had a Caesarean and who later attempt to deliver by labor are more likely to suffer a uterine rupture than women who go on to have a repeat Caesarean delivery, according to a UW study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Vedder assumes leadership of Plastic Surgery Division

Dr.

October 24, 2001

Blame North America megafauna extinction on climate change, not human ancestors

Even such mythical detectives as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot would have difficulty trying to find the culprit that killed the mammoths, mastodons and other megafauna that once roamed North America.

2001 autumn quarter enrollments at the University of Washington

The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2001 is 37,412, including 838 students in the Evening Degree Program. The number is about 3.5 percent higher than last year’s headcount of 36,139.

October 23, 2001

Hospitals, Health Departments Prepare for Possible Bioterrorism

Yesterday, at a more-than-capacity meeting sponsored by Harborview Medical Center, the Washington State Hospital Association, and the Central Region Trauma Council, hospital and health department leaders continued their preparations for dealing with bioterrorism. More than 400 people attended the meeting, which was also broadcast via live feed to several locations and taped for later distribution to other hospitals and health departments statewide.

2001 Autumn Quarter Enrollments

The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2001 is 37,412, including 838 students in the Evening Degree Program.

October 22, 2001

UrbanSim to pit computer’s ingenuity against gridlock, pollution, sprawl

University of Washington researchers have won more than $5 million in federal grants to create software of unprecedented power and flexibility to help Puget Sound and other metropolitan areas tackle such problems as traffic jams and water pollution.

Publisher to address business leaders, UW faculty and alumni on future of Internet gold rush

Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard, one of the nation’s most influential technology journalists, will deliver the keynote address Thursday at the University of Washington Business Leadership Banquet.

October 18, 2001

Fact sheet for reporters: Canopy research could lead to better forest management

The crane and forest around it are closed to the general public because of safety concerns (the forest around the crane, for example, is a hard-hat area), there are scientific instruments on the forest floor and the area needs to be kept as pristine as possible for research to be meaningful. Please don’t include the crane in travel or outdoors stories leading readers or viewers to think they can visit. This will only frustrate people and cause them to be upset with the research staff.

Story ideas for reporters: Investigations using crane range from water works to witches’ brooms

Going up — A key factor in forest growth, and subsequent carbon sequestration, is the way trees take up and give off water. Work at the crane covers this process from below the forest floor to the very tops of the trees. A new project at the crane site is trying to determine the significance of what scientists call hydraulic lift in the root zone.

Two University of Washington professors are among 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine this week.

Dr. Bobbie Berkowitz, professor and chair of the Department of Psychosocial and Community Health in the School of Nursing, and Dr. Cornelius Rosse, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Biological Structure in the School of Medicine, join 36 other UW faculty members previously elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Mystery photo

Where are we?

The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Legislation seeks to set standards for distance learning courses

By Doug Wadden, Faculty Council on Academic Standards

and Steve Buck, Faculty Council on Educational Outreach

The role of distance learning in undergraduate education at the UW has long been a contentious issue.

Notices

Academic Opportunities

Applicants sought for exchange program

The University of Washington-University of Ljublajana Exchange Program invites applications from faculty and senior graduate students to be an academic visitor to the University of Ljubljana, in Slovenia, during the 2002 calendar year.

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NOBEL PITCHER: The UW’s newest Nobel Prize winner, Lee Hartwell, threw out the first pitch in the Mariners’ win over Cleveland Monday.

Drafting a memorial

Students, faculty and staff from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning gathered on Oct.

UW memorial dedicated to terror victims

UW President Richard L.

October 11 reflections

Several seminars and workshops for the University’s Day of Reflection and Engagement preceded the presentation by Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague, for the Hogness Symposium last week.

A ‘responsive’ Ph.D.: UW ready to take action as national program kicks off

On Oct.

Prof to open journalism, trauma center at Ground Zero

By Steve Hill
University Week

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the UW has received emergency funding to open an office in New York City to support journalists traumatized by their work covering the Sept.

Campus Responding To Tragedy: Providing emotional relief

By Steve Hill
University Week

The tragedy of Sept.

Campus Responding To Tragedy: Staffer’s art helps her cope

“Artists and Art Making: How Should We Proceed Post Sept.

Researchers looking for answers as whale population dwindles

As the federal government inches toward listing Puget Sound’s orca whales for protection under the Endangered Species Act, UW researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals’ plummeting population.

Grant to promote women in science, engineering

The University of Washington has received a $3.

MacDonald to join Burke Nov. 1

Next month the Burke Museum will be welcoming a new director.

Briefly

Lecture focuses on World Trade Center

New York World Trade Center: Reflections on the Engineering and Thoughts About the Future is the title of a lecture scheduled for 4 p.

Volunteer gives gift of food

Editor’s Note: The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.